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J. E. HUDEG. RAILROAD RAIL GROSSING.

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RAILROAD GROSSING'. No. 445,781.. Patented Feb. 3,1891.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. HUDEO, OF OLEVELAND, OIllO, ASSIGNOR OF ONEIIIRD TO ALBERT ROKNSEK, OF SAME PLACE.

RAiLROAD-RAIL CROSSING.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 445,781, dated February 8, 1891.

Application filed March 21, 1890' Serial No. 344,693. (No model.)

To all whmn it meczy cmwern:

e it known that l, JOHN F. lI'UDEC, a eiti` zen of the United States,i'esiding at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio,

have invented certain new and useful 1mprovements in Railroad Rail Crossings, of which the following` is a speeifioation.

This invention relates to traek-erossin for street or steam railroads; and it consists of wedges, in combination with the bifureated branohes of a union-chair construoted and applied :for elamping the rails to the ehair, substantially as hereinafter deseribed, and pointed out in the elaim.

In the aoeompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a railroad-erossing embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the union-Chair. Fig. 3 is a perspeetive view of the rail-crossing, showing my invention with rails seoured thereto. Fig. 4: is a detaehed perspeetive view of the union. Figs. 5 and (i are respeetively two sizes of wedges em ployed for clamping the rails to the union-Chair. Fig. 7 shows end of someof the rails where they z 5 join.

These unions are made in pairs or right and left hand, thus adapting them for the four rail-erossings. They m ay be made square or at any desired angle. Those shown in Figs.

1 and 2 are at an angle of seventy-eight degrees.

A in the several figures represents the unionohair, eonsisting of a cross-piece having four befureated branehes, between `whieh the ends ot' the rails R R R R are elamped in eonstrueting the orossing. The outside halves a a co have inside ribs and beveled bottoms,

' which are fitted to lie on the lower fianges of the rails and bear against the side of the webs 40 of the rails, and also under theprojeeting head of the rail-tread. These arms serve the same as fish-plates and furnish a strong solid bearing for the ends of the rails. The inside halves. of said branehes have heavy grooved wedgeshaped ribs a' a', and between these and the wehs of the rails are driven wedges T Z whieh elamp the rails firmly against the outside halves. Bolts B B are inserted through holes in the said branehes and webs of the rails, the holes in the inside halves a' a' being sorew-threaded, so that the serews take hold iu them, and on the projeeting ends of the bolts are sorewed nuts 'a a, as jarn'nuts, to secure the bolts from turning. These bolts are put through the branehes at-4 the ends of the wedges and are designed as set-serews to hold the said wedges up to place and prevent their working loose. The wedges also have a rih on the side,whioh bears against the wedgefaced branch, which rest in the aforesaid grooves. This prevents the working up. The lower sides of said wedges also bear on the 'top of the rail-flanges.

These union-ehairs are to be cast iu one solid piece to make them strong and durahle. 5

The ends of the rails may be beveled, as

seen in Fig. 7, to bear against a eorresponding bevel in the union for providing a protection to the end of the rail at the opening of the tread of the rails through theorossing.

llaving deseribed my invention, I elaim. as follows:

The wedges T V, in combination with the bifuroated branehes of the ohair, having r'ibs a', and the rails R R, and the bolts B, e'onstructed and applied for clamping the rails to the Chair, substantially as and for the pur pose speeified.

JOHN F. I'IUDEC. lllitiiesses:

F. O. FRIEND, GEO. W. 'lIBBI'rtrs 

